"To be a sergeant, you have to know your stuff. I'd rather be an outstanding sergeant than just another officer."

--GySgt Dan Daly, USMC

La Triviata

During World War II, two sons of Lord Halifax, the British Ambassador to the United States, were killed in action, and one was permanently disabled.

On the night of March 30-31, 1814, the aged Jean Mathieu Philbert Serurier, Marshal of France and Governor of the Invalides, personally supervised the burning of over 1500 battle flags taken by French armies over the centuries, to prevent their falling into the hands of the victorious Allies, who were imminently poised to occupy Paris.

Army Maj. Gen. James G. Harbord, was so such a fan of the Marines of he had commanded in the 2nd Division in France during World War I that upon hearing one of his tales about the Leathernecks, General of the Armies John J. Pershing replied, "No wonder the Marines like you, when you can tell whoppers like that."

It took the skins of approximately 70 goats to make one of the Roman Army's standard eight-man squad tents.

During World War I 249 American officers and 3,342 men were captured by the Germans, all of whom were returned to American authority shortly after the Armistice, and sent home by February 5, 1919, save for 1 officer and 20 men who had died in captivity.

During the 1830s the British Army had 10 lieutenant colonels for each of its seven battalions of Guards infantry, but only 1.26 for each of the 100 battalions of infantry of the line.

The first recorded use of aircraft in warfare occurred during the Mexican Revolution, when a government pilot flew an airplane of unknown type on a reconnaissance mission over Ciudad Juarez in February of 1911,

One early nickname for the jeep was the "Blitz Buggy," invented by the press.